Dún Laoghaire — week of Mon, 6 Mar

What your Dún Laoghaire TDs did this week

Mon, 6 Mar – 12 Mar 2023 · 4 TDs · 2 bills voted on · 28 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages

2023-03-08 · 1 vote

An amendment to the bill · motion failed 47–78

Voted for 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Voted against 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

High Energy Costs

2023-03-08 · 2 votes

Amendment again put: · motion passed 69–59

Voted for 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

The motion · motion passed 69–59

Voted for 3 Cormac Devlin · Jennifer Carroll MacNeill · Ossian Smyth

Voted against 1 Richard Boyd Barrett

Did not vote 1 Barry Ward

Barry Ward — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Cormac Devlin — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 10 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 10 total

Housing 6 questions
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of the new €150 million URDF vacancy fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11719/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the defects scheme for apartments and duplexes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11720/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current staffing levels assigned to the foreshore unit in his Department in the years 2016 to 2023, in tabular form; if he has plans to increase the resources of the unit to prioritise the assessment of foreshore licence applications for the purposes of facilitating necessary works in connection with offshore wind developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12045/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average processing times for foreshore licence applications related to Phase 2 offshore wind energy developments for the years 2020 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12046/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will direct officials in the foreshore unit to publish, on a monthly basis, a list of outstanding FLAs for offshore wind projects, including their status and the indicative timeline to a decision, similar to other agencies and Departments, in order to provide greater transparency for offshore wind operators and the general public regarding processing times for related foreshore licence applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12047/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a status update on a public housing scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12048/23]
Children 2 questions
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of engagements or meetings his officials have had with Tusla about GDPR/FOI subject access request (SAR) processing times, in tabular form; the number of requests under GDPR/FOI for personal data requests processed by Tusla, including average processing times monthly during the period 1 January 2020 to 1 March 2023, by administrative region; Dublin North East, Dublin Mid Leinster, South East, South West, Mid-West and West North West; the arrangements that are being put in place by Tusla to deal with exceptional time sensitive matters requiring urgent responses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12070/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12071/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide details of meetings his officials had with the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities to examine the current prices being charged by regulated utilities between 1 September 2022 and 1 March 2023, in tabular form; the efforts being made to ensure that reductions in wholesale energy prices are being passed on to consumers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12044/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education the number of requests under GDPR or FOI for personal data from her Department, including average processing times monthly during the period 1 January 2020 to 1 March 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12072/23]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Richard Boyd Barrett — People Before Profit-Solidarity 3 votes · 18 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 18 total

Housing 5 questions
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many call-outs of emergency services there were to deal with out-of-control gorse fires nationwide; the costs of same from 1 September 2022 to 28 March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce any supports, such as HAP, for households who are facing eviction or seeking accommodation but cannot afford current market rents but are above the social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the eviction ban at the end of March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11854/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the final figure for local authority own build social housing completions in the four Dublin local authorities in 2022; his views that this represents success or failure in terms of addressing the chronic housing crisis in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/23]
- 2023-03-09 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and other bodies to ensure the immediate servicing of the public housing lands in Old Conna and Rathmichael to accelerate the delivery of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/23]
Enterprise 4 questions
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received any report from the Corporate Enforcement Authority on the meeting in January 2023 between the Corporate Enforcement Authority, workers of a company (details supplied) and this Deputy, a meeting that was facilitated by the Secretary General of his Department following a parliamentary question raised by this Deputy with the Taoiseach on 13 December 2022 regarding the findings from a recently made film in relation to the liquidation of said company; if he has not received such a report, if he will seek it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11420/23]
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware in the course of the liquidation of a company (details supplied); if so, when his Department became aware of the pre-pack administration package put together in April 2019 by several financial entities, involving a floating charge loan of £200 million to the company's UK entity, which was subsequently injected into it but for which the Irish and Danish stores were made co-guarantors, and the use of the 12-month rule in Irish law concerning the fixing of these charges on the company in Ireland, and the fact that the liquidation of the company's Irish operations was announced precisely 12 months later on the day such a liability became legally valid in Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11421/23]
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware that a company (details supplied) had not renewed its 36 trademarks in the Republic of Ireland in 2020 prior to the liquidation of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11422/23]
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware that workers of a company (details supplied) were initially told the company debt was €22 million in May 2020, and in July that debt had risen to more than €300 million, and that the workers were also told that the revenues from the online sales of a website would be used in the liquidation, which subsequently turned out not to be the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11423/23]
Taoiseach 3 questions
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [11360/23]
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on immigration will next meet. [11361/23]
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the committee that deals with higher education and research will next meet. [10251/23]
Finance 3 questions
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware of an organisation’s (details supplied) recent report on wealth inequality in Ireland, which found that the number of Irish persons with individual wealth of over €46.6 million has more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, rising from 655 to 1,435 people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11408/23]
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the companies that attended the dinner he hosted in Davos recently; the matters that were discussed with these companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11406/23]
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte/Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; his views on the tax treatment of such an investment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11403/23]
Environment 1 question
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the area of land covered by gorse and heather and so on that has been burned nationwide; how many tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere from the period 1 September 2022 to 28 February 2023; if this CO2 is included in agriculture emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11399/23]
Education 1 question
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if a person (details supplied) who has very high level special needs and is in residential care and who has not received a full and specialised education based on their needs since 2020, will receive home tuition or admission to a special needs school which they have been repeatedly refused by application due to lack of capacity and lack of special needs facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11214/23]
Children 1 question
- 2023-03-07 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific additional supports a mother of two children with disabilities, for which she is receiving DCA, might be entitled to including but not limited to a tax credits for a new car; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10841/23]